On November 14, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc (“ISDA”), the Global Financial Markets Association (“GFMA”) and the Institute of International Finance (“IIF”) (together “the Associations”) sent a further response to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) Consultative Document "The non-internal model method for capitalizing counterparty credit risk exposures" (June 2013) related to the Definition of Notional Amounts.
Documents (1) for ISDA, GFMA & IIF further response to the BCBS Consultative Document "The non-internal model method for capitalizing counterparty credit risk exposures"
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